Held Family Reunion August 14th In Purdin
Relatives of J. M. Smith and wife gathered at their southeast Purdin home on August 1 in honor of Mr and Mrs Ray Davis of Little Rock Arkansas. A noon feast followed by a log rose garden tour and fellowship among many Smith Doty Long Brown Thorne Skeen and other families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Smith
Purdin
Ray Davis
Little Rock
Ark
Wm. Smith
Losh Doty
Tom ‘Brown
Richard
Tone Long
Vernon
Jerald
Harold Brown
Wendell
Sam Thorne
Dorothy
I J
Clarence Skinner
Alvin Smith
Orra Smith
Norman
Ruth
Frances
Essie
Lucille
Atley
Gene
Miriam
Clarence Skeen
Billy
Cale Smith
Imogene
J. C
Elmer Smith
Earl
Frances Mary
Corene
Robert
Joe
Ray
C. L. Lay
Mary Samples
Amanda Doty
Arthur Smith
Garrett
Clara
Street Fair Meeting and Community Band Boost
The Browning Street Fair Association marks its annual meeting at the Electric Theatre on Tuesday night August 30 to elect officers and plan fair activities. The text also notes praise for local band concerts supported by Milan Chamber of Commerce and describes a hosted dinner party at the Adams residence with guests including Dr. Brownback Thurlo Dickinson Lay Fields and Prof. Reinhard, praising the hosts hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce of
Milan
Browning Street
Electric Theatre
J. J. Smith
Joe Nickell
Guy Adams
Brownback
H. N. Thurlo
Will Dickinson
Harvey Fields
J.D. Lay
Maude Fields
Prof
Reinhard
Diary Fragments and Local News Include Death and Game Report
Slats' diary notes a sequence of daily events with Mrs Blunt visiting in stylish dress and a quip about her fashion. It also covers a farmerly note, a near-accident with a gasoline tank, a joke about marryages, a death of F M Stamper, and a baseball game between Sumner and Browning with detailed inning-by-inning actions and player events. The late items include Burkholder family funeral attendance and job offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilema
Northwest Mounted
Noosepaper
John Rockfellow
Jenny
Wensday
Joe Hix
Shim
Ant Emmy
Heven
Sumner
Rutt
C. Stewart
Peterson
B. Stewart
Ward
Stone
Phillips
Taylor
Baker
Hove
Browning
McDandel
Daniels
Lomax
Vroom
Adams
Sharp
Bennett
Cox
John Burkholder
Lorene
Rudy Burkholder
Brookfield
Ralph Laing
The Overland Stage at Deadwood and Westward Link
One of cinema history’s great gifts, The Overland Stage shows the linking of eastern and western stagecoach lines. Filmed at Deadwood, SD by Ken Maynard and company, it rivals The Covered Wagon and North of 36. Also screens Qur Gang comedy Love My Dog, two-reel. Admission 5e children, 25e adults. Fay Peterson promotes Barber Medicine Company products in Linn and southern Sullivan counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Deadwood
Ken Maynard
West
Wyandott cockerels from Quisenberry pens for sale
Wyandott cockerels direct from J B Quisenberrys pens 300 exy strain priced at 1 50 each Etta Sparks Browning Mo
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyandott Cockerels
J. B. Quisenberry
Etta Sparks
Browning, Mo
Browning Jail Era Recounted in City History
The piece recalls Browning’s early jail built of oak near the mill, its harsh justice, and later moves to Sullivan county for use as a corn crib. It notes two factions on law enforcement, lists former marshals, and praises local officers amid a changing town. High School teachers Hope and Simms were elected for the coming year with Simms praised as experienced and Hope previously linked to Calvert Stockton College.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Browning
Joe Wilhite
Frank Stone
W. T. Stephenson
Calaboose
Sullivan County
Linn County
Linneus
Alway
Johns Wilson
J. W. Jones
Ellea Reed
John Ashby
B. D. Stevenson
R. L. Gibson
James Pratt
Charley Williams
Arthur Bingham
Hope
Simms
Columbia
Calvert- Stockton College
Canton
Carthage
Ill
Durham
Middletown
Til
Eva Stone
Real estate boom reshapes town as owners swap properties
A wave of property transfers reshapes the town with Millard Hall selling Line Street to Roy Miller and buying the Becker property near the depot. Mrs. J P Turner, Mrs. D C Cassity, and others move into new homes while J H Calhoun buys the city jail for conversion into a corn crib. Dr Ingram sells Browning Drug Company stock to Dr Bickel of Albany for his daughter Dortha Bickel who will join Pauli Brothers in St. Louis. Dr Ingram plans to practice here but may relocate, leaving many local friends hoping for his return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millard Hall
Line Street
Roy Miller
C. H. Becker
D.C. Cassity
Lafe Bennett _ pro
J.P. Turner Peets
Roy Jones
H. Mandel
C.E. Becker
J. H. Calhoun
Ingram
Dr. Ingram
Dr. Bické
Albany
Browning Drug Company
Iitter
Miss.Dortha Bickel
Pauli Brothers
St. Louis
Obituary of Eliza Elizabeth Anderson
Eliza Elizabeth Anderson born April 6 1839 in Augusta Virginia near Stanton moved to Sullivan county Missouri in youth. She remained a devout Christian reading the Bible and singing daily until illness after a hip fracture in December 1923 left her an invalid. She died August 14 1927 at age 88 and is survived by many nieces and nephews with funeral services by Rev. W A Pollock at the M F church Humphreys and interment at the Huster y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Elizabeth Anderson
Augusta County
Stanton, Virginie
Sullivan County
Missouri
Humphreys
W. A. Pollock
Powersville
M. F
Notice on returning tools and borrowed scoop shovel
L. C. Peterson asks any party who borrowed the scoop shovel or removed lines from the barn to please return them. The notice seeks return of the items and goodwill following the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C. Peterson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Herbert Hamilton
R. W. Whaley
W. H. Dickinson
Utica Rats
Chillicothe Athletic Team
Enterprise
Milan I. C. C. F
Main Street
F. M Stamper
J. R Williams
F. M. Stamper Co
Mr. Stamper
Moberly
Sumner—Rutt
Butt
Tayoor
McDéndel
Stewart
Ball
McDaniel
Sumter
C. Steward
Browning—Daniels
Sumner—Baker
Browning—Phillips
R. S. Jenkins
H Rutt
C. Sewart
Ef Sharp
Rf Bennett
Browning AB Stone
Hoe
Ss Cox
Cf Peterson
If Daniels
P Vroom
Tnnings
Daniels G. Moore
Barber Medicine Company
Kansas City
Barber
Linn Co
Sullivan
Fay Peterson
Bastile
Thio
Elizabeth
Anderson
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